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The short-chain fatty acid acetate reduces appetite via a central homeostatic mechanism

Increased intake of dietary carbohydrate that is fermented in the colon by the microbiota has been reported to decrease body weight, although the mechanism remains unclear. Here we use in vivo(11)C-acetate and PET-CT scanning to show that colonic acetate crosses the blood–brain barrier and is taken...

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Autores principales: Frost, Gary, Sleeth, Michelle L., Sahuri-Arisoylu, Meliz, Lizarbe, Blanca, Cerdan, Sebastian, Brody, Leigh, Anastasovska, Jelena, Ghourab, Samar, Hankir, Mohammed, Zhang, Shuai, Carling, David, Swann, Jonathan R., Gibson, Glenn, Viardot, Alexander, Morrison, Douglas, Louise Thomas, E, Bell, Jimmy D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4015327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24781306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4611